Posted by Lou Pilder on March 22, 2011, at 16:29:12
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-thedehyovlrd, posted by Christ_empowered on March 22, 2011, at 13:26:45
> Medications are over-used, that is true, and psychiatry can destroy lives, that is also true, BUT...when psychiatrists limit themselves to treating severe problems that require medications, and then use medications judiciously, good things happen. I have found that my life has been improved dramatically by the use of antipsychotics, and I imagine the same is true of many people with severe mental illness.
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> Please realize that psychotropics, dangerous as they can sometimes be, have the potential to help a lot of people lead more productive, fulfilling, stable lives.
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> C_emp,
You wrote,[...medications are over-used...psychiatry can destroy lives...when psychiatrists limit themselves to treating severe problems...and use medications judiciously...people with severe mental illness...].
I am unsure as to what you are wanting to mean here. If you could post answers here to the following, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
A. Are there two classes of people that see a psychiatrist?
B. If so, could the two classes be those that do not have a [severe} mental illness and those that do have such?
C. If so, what are the criteria that psychiatrists use to mark the difference between those that do have a severe mental illness and those that do not, if you know?
D. If a drug prescribed by a psychiatrist lists the effect of the drug to have the potential to induce a mind-altered state that could cause the person taking the drug to want to kill themselves and/or others, would it have the potential to induce that state to a person that does not have severe mental illness and to a person that does have a severe mental illness?
E. other aspectsLou
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